Zhovkva
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Zhovkva is a city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. Zhovkva hosts the administration of Zhovkva urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately 13,852.
Main market square
Statue of the town's founder Stanisław Żółkiewski in the Collegiate Church of St. Lawrence
19th-century view of the market square with the St. Lawrence's Church, drawing by Karel Auer
Market square in modern times
Stanisław Żółkiewski
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Stanisław Żółkiewski was a Polish nobleman of the Lubicz coat of arms, a magnate, military commander, and Chancellor of the Polish Crown in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who took part in many mil
Stanisław Żółkiewski and Baltazar Batory at Pskov, detail from a painting by Jan Matejko
Death of Stanisław Żółkiewski with his confessor, Father Szymon Wybierski, Battle of Cecora (1620), painting by Walery Eljasz Radzikowski
Monument to Żókiewski, near the site of his death in modern Moldova